Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 6358

DIMEV 6358

IMEV 3975

NIMEV TM 1875

When Jesu Christ baptized was

An Epiphany carol — four quatrains (aaab) including refrain, ‘Hic est filius meus dilectus ipsum audite,’ plus burden (bb): ‘Ihesus autem hodie / Egressus est de virgine’

Subjects: carols, Epiphany

Versification: — four-line — aaab

Macaronic: Latin

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Balliol College 354, pp. 3753-376

First Lines:

When Ihesu Crist baptised was
Þe Holy Gost dessendid by grace…

Last Lines:

…At owr last end we pray þe say than
Hic est filius meus dilectus ipsum audite
Explicit

Facsimiles:

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University: Facsimile of Oxford, Balliol MS 354. (http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=balliol&manuscript=ms354).

Editions:

Flügel, Ewald. “Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts….” Anglia 26 (1903): 94-285: 196.

Flügel, Ewald. “Englische Weihnachtslieder aus einter Handschrift des Balliol College zu Oxford.” Forschungen zur deutschen Philologie. Festgabe für Rudolf Hildebrands. Leipzig: Deit, 1894: 52-84: 55.

Dyboski, R., ed. Songs, Carols and Other Miscellaneous Poems from Balliol MS. 354, Richard Hill’s Commonplace Book. EETS e.s. 101 (1908); repr. 1984: 4.

2.Source: London, British Library Addit. 5665, ff. 40v-41

First Lines:

When jhesus criste baptyȝed was
The holy gost descended with grace…

Last Lines:

…Atte oure last ende we pray the say than
Hic est filius meus [ipsum audite]

Note: Music by John Trouluffe and Richard Smert.

Attributed Author: Hyt ys gode to be gracius sayde john trouluffe (f. 40v), Well Fare thyn herte sayde smerte (f. 41)

Attributed Title: Epiphanie (ff. 40v, 41)

Editions:

Fehr, Bernhard. “Die Lieder der Hs. Add. 5665 (Ritson’s Folio-MS).” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 106 (1901): 262-85: 274-5.

Greene, Richard Leighton. The Early English Carols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1935; 2nd ed., rev., Oxford: Clarendon, 1977: 90; 1977, 79-80.

Stevens, John, ed. Mediaeval Carols. Musica Britannica 4. London: Stainer and Bell, 1952, 2nd ed. 1958: 97.

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED